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Firefox Might Quickly Come To iOS

For a yr now, Mozilla has categorically said that it wouldn’t launch a model of Firefox for iOS as a result of Apple gained’t let it use its personal net engine on its platform. With a new CEO on board, nevertheless, it seems like Mozilla’s place could also be altering. At an inner Mozilla occasion in Portland at this time, the group talked about the necessity to get its browser onto iOS.

“We have to be the place our customers are,” Firefox launch supervisor Lukas Blakk wrote on Twitter right now (quoting Mozilla’s VP for Firefox Jonathan Nightingale, we expect). “So we’re going to get Firefox on iOS.”

We have to be the place our customers are so we will get Firefox on iOS #mozlandia

Apple has been very restrictive with regard to 3rd-social gathering browser engines on its platform. Present third-get together iOS browsers like Chrome or Opera can solely function on iOS as a result of they use Apple’s personal JavaScript and rendering engines, for instance — or, as within the case of Opera, by rendering websites on a server after which sending them to the system.

It’s unclear how Mozilla plans to deliver Firefox to iOS, however provided that Apple isn’t more likely to open up its platform for third-get together browser engines, it’ll possible need to work with Apple’s know-how. With that, it could possibly nonetheless help Firefox accounts, its bookmark-syncing instruments and all the opposite options that Firefox for Android presently presents.

Subsequent yr goes to be an necessary one for Firefox — and one that may hopefully convey a little bit of a resurgence for the browser. Customers at the moment need to use the identical browser on all of their units. That makes maintaining bookmarks and passwords in sync fairly a bit simpler, in any case. For some time, Mozilla provided Firefox Residence on iOS for precisely this cause, however then it deserted that venture two years in the past.

We now have reached out to Mozilla for remark and can replace this submit as soon as we hear extra.